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Images Dated 3rd February 2011 (page 7)

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Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae

Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae nuperrime visi by Philipp Mueller, published at Leipzig in 1619. This recounts observations of comets made in 1618

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Container for the Philosophers Stone

Container for the Philosophers Stone
Alchemy. Woodcut illustration of a vessel used to contain the Philosophers Stone. This was the aim of alchemists, to create this mythical substance that was able to turn base metals such as lead into

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Emblems from Philosophia reformata

Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Set of four engraved emblems. At top left a woman wearing the five planets around her head as stars walks across a lake accompanied by the Sun and the Moon

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Woodcut of a soursop fruit

Woodcut of a soursop fruit
Soursop fruit. 16th century woodcut illustration of the fruit of the guanabanus or soursop (Guanabanus muricatus (L.)). The soursop is a broadleaf evergreen tree native to tropical regions

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Mud ripples at low tide

Mud ripples at low tide. The exposed mud shows the ripple pattern made by the flow and ebb of the tide. Photographed in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Aristotelian natural place

Aristotelian natural place
The natural place of things. 17th century diagram showing the Aristotelian concept that everything has a natural place. The four elements sat one upon the other, with earth at the centre, then water

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Echium vulgare in bud

Echium vulgare in bud
Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) in bud. Photographed in Portland, Dorset, UK, in June

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Star map using Hebrew characters

Star map using Hebrew characters
Star map. A map of stars with their positions and groupings defined using modified Hebrew characters. This woodcut illustration comes from Curiositez invoyes sur la sculpture talismaique des Persans

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Commodore Byron and Patagonians

Commodore Byron and Patagonians
Engraving depicting the meeting between John Byron and Patagonian tribespeople in 1741. Byrons ship, HMS Wager, had been shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia (now Argentina)

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Veronicastrum Spring Dew

Veronicastrum Spring Dew
Culvers root (Veronicastrum virginicum Spring Dew ) flowers. Photographed in Dorset, UK, in July

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Fludds account of creation

Fludds account of creation
The Creation. A diagram depicting the Creation of the Universe as the interplay of darkness and light. At the top is God. On the right is divine volunty

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Volvent nematocyst, artwork

Volvent nematocyst, artwork. Nematocysts, or cnidocysts, are usually venomous threads that are found in Cnidaria, which includes jellyfish, sea anemones and corals

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Rosicrucian mystical symbol

Rosicrucian mystical symbol
Thorny rose symbol. 17th century engraving depicting a rose and bees. The text reads The rose gives honey to the bees. This is a symbol of the Rosicrucian Order

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Lime (Tilia sp. ) tree buds

Lime (Tilia sp. ) tree buds
Lime (Tilia sp.) tree buds. Photographed in Dorset, UK, in April

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Thermo-mechanical boring machine

Thermo-mechanical boring machine, artwork. This Soviet machine was designed at the Kharkov Aviation Institute, Ukraine. The institute was founded in 1930, and teaches engineering

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Bethlem Hospital, 18th century

Bethlem Hospital, 18th century
Bethlem Hospital. 18th century engraving of Bethlem Hospital at Moorfields, London. The first Bethlem Hospital was founded in the 14th century

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Industrial amber extraction

Industrial amber extraction. Mining machines being used to extract amber from an open-cast pit area. This pit is part of the Primorskoye deposit near Yantarny, a settlement in Kaliningrad Oblast

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: 16th c device for setting broken leg

16th c device for setting broken leg
Setting a broken leg. 16th century illustration depicting a device for immobilising a broken lower leg so that it might set

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Guys Hospital, 18th century

Guys Hospital, 18th century
Guys Hospital. 18th century engraving of Guys Hospital in Southwark, London. Guys was founded in 1721 by Sir Thomas Guy, a governor of the nearby St. Thomas Hospital

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Geoheliocentric cosmology, 16th century

Geoheliocentric cosmology, 16th century
Geoheliocentric cosmology. Woodcut illustration depicting a view of the Solar System. This is known as a geoheliocentric system. The Earth is at the centre and is orbited by the Moon and Sun

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Breadfruit, 18th century plate

Breadfruit, 18th century plate
Breadfruit. Engraving of breadfruit, the fruit of the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis). The breadfruit is a staple food of the Pacific

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Emblems from Mylius Philosophia reformat

Emblems from Mylius Philosophia reformat
Set of four engraved emblems. At top left is a Moon-headed naked woman dressed in the globe of the Earth, breastfeeding a Sun-headed infant

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Orange tip butterfly covered in dew

Orange tip butterfly covered in dew
Male orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) covered in dew at dawn. Photographed in Dorset, UK, May

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Veronicastrum Lavendelturm

Veronicastrum Lavendelturm
Culvers root (Veronicastrum virginicum Lavendelturm ) in flower. Photographed in Dorset, UK, in July

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Witches burning a town, 17h century

Witches burning a town, 17h century
Witchcraft. 17th century woodcut illustration depicting two witches setting fire to a town. This illustration comes from Compendium maleficarum by Maria Guazzo, published in Milan in 1626

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Egyptian galleon, 17th century

Egyptian galleon, 17th century
Egyptian galleon. Engraved illustration showing an Egyptian galleon at sea. On the deck can be seen two long stone obelisks. The ship has both sails and oars

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Woodcut of a red kidney bean plant

Woodcut of a red kidney bean plant
Red kidney bean. Woodcut illustration of a phaseolus Brasilianus, or red kidney bean plant. This is probably a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Human skeleton, posterior view

Human skeleton, posterior view. This woodcut illustration comes from Chirugia magna by Andreas Vesalius, printed at Venice in 1569

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Parasol mushroom

Parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera). Photographed on Powerstock Common, Dorset, UK, in October

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Orange tip butterfly

Orange tip butterfly
Male orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) on a bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta). Photographed in Dorset, UK, May

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Fuegans in their hut, 18th century

Fuegans in their hut, 18th century
Fuegians. Engraved plate depicting a group of Fuegians, the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Silver birch leaves

Silver birch leaves
Silver birch (Betula pendula) leaves. New leaves sprouting on a silver birch branch in spring. Photographed in in Dorset, UK, in May

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Pyhthagorean world view, 16th century

Pyhthagorean world view, 16th century
Pythagorean world view. Diagram showing the elements of the Universe as espoused by Pythagorean philosophers and interpreted by 16th century Europeans

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Portland spurge (Euphorbia exigua)

Portland spurge (Euphorbia exigua)
Portland spurge (Euphorbia portlandica) in flower. Photographed in Tout Quarry, Portland, Dorset, UK, in June

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Polynesian artefacts, 18th century

Polynesian artefacts, 18th century
Polynesian artefacts. Engraving of several artefacts seen by explorers in Tahiti. They ae (left to right): two chisels or gouges, an adze, an implement for crushing breadfruit into paste

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Sycamore leaf opening

Sycamore leaf opening
Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) leaf opening in spring. Photographed in April, in Dorset, UK, in April

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Mirror neuron, conceptual image

Mirror neuron, conceptual image
Mirror neuron, conceptual computer artwork. Nerve cell, or neuron, and a human eye reflected on a shiny surface representing a mirror neuron cell. Mirror neurons are found in the brain

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Mirror neuron, conceptual image

Mirror neuron, conceptual image
Mirror neuron, conceptual computer artwork. Nerve cell, or neuron, reflected in water, representing a mirror neuron cell. Mirror neurons are found in the brain

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Sea campion (Silene uniflora) in flower

Sea campion (Silene uniflora) in flower. Photographed on Cogden beach, Dorset, UK, in May

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Fludds account of creation

Fludds account of creation
The Creation. A diagram depicting the Creation of the Universe as the interplay of darkness and light. At the top is God. On the right is divine volunty

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Maori fortified town, 18th century

Maori fortified town, 18th century
Maori own. Engraved plate showing a maori fortified town (or hippah) on the coast near Tolaga in New Zealand. Seen in the water are two boats, one rowed by British sailors (left)

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Ship with gimballed chair, 16th cent

Ship with gimballed chair, 16th cent
16th century illustration showing a ship with a stabilised chair. The chair is on the poop deck (over the bows) and is inside a globe that is mounted on perpendicular axes

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Ice maiden mummy, Siberia

Ice maiden mummy, Siberia
Ice maiden mummy in a display cabinet at the Siberian branch of the Russian Institute for Archeology and Ethnography. Also known as the Altai Princess or Ukok Princess

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Diagram of the well-proportioned horse

Diagram of the well-proportioned horse
The well-proportioned horse. Illustration from a book on horsemanship, depicting the supposed ideal proportions of a show horse. Various parts of the body are labelled in the margins

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Fludds energy and substance

Fludds energy and substance
Energy and substance. 17th century mystical work depicting the relationship between energy and substance in the Universe. At the top is the source of infinite force at the sphere of the Empyrean

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Polynesian artefacts, 18th century

Polynesian artefacts, 18th century
Polynesian artefacts. Engraving of several artefacts seen by explorers in Tahiti. At left is an adze, next to which are several views of the cutting head

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis)

Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) in flower. Photographed in Dorset, UK, in February

Background imageImages Dated 3rd February 2011: Northern hemisphere map, 16th Century

Northern hemisphere map, 16th Century
Northern hemisphere. A 16th century map of the Northern Hemisphere in a circular projection. The centre of the map is the north pole



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